Jennifer Thuy Vi Nguyen is a queer Vietnamese American writer currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is a creative nonfiction writer with a humorist lens, splicing essays with jest and hand-drawn graphics.
She is the recipient of several residencies and fellowships, including the Vermont Studio Center, Macondo, and the Lambda Literary Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices where she received the Emerge Editorial Fellowship. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in Foglifter, the Ponder Review, and New Rivers Press as the winner of the 2014 American Fiction Award. Her forthcoming residencies, fellowships, and publications include a residency in the Literary Arts at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity (2024), The Emerge Anthology (2024) and The Offing (2024).
A proud native Houstonian, she holds a BA and MA in English from Georgetown University where she was the winner of the Bernard M. Wagner Medal for Excellence in Writing.